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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: paulmck@us.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix kill_proc_info() vs CLONE_THREAD race
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:13:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F37D54.4D0AAEFD@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F3352C.E2D8F998@tv-sign.ru>

There is a window after copy_process() unlocks ->sighand.siglock
and before it adds the new thread to the thread list.

In that window __group_complete_signal(SIGKILL) will not see the
new thread yet, so this thread will start running while the whole
thread group was supposed to exit.

I beleive we have another good reason to place attach_pid(PID/TGID)
under ->sighand.siglock. We can do the same for

	release_task()->__unhash_process()

	de_thread()->switch_exec_pids()

After that we don't need tasklist_lock to iterate over the thread
list, and we can simplify things, see for example do_sigaction()
or sys_times().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- 2.6.16-rc3/kernel/fork.c~1_KILL	2006-02-15 22:52:07.000000000 +0300
+++ 2.6.16-rc3/kernel/fork.c	2006-02-15 23:21:51.000000000 +0300
@@ -1123,8 +1123,8 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned lon
 		p->real_parent = current;
 	p->parent = p->real_parent;
 
+	spin_lock(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) {
-		spin_lock(&current->sighand->siglock);
 		/*
 		 * Important: if an exit-all has been started then
 		 * do not create this new thread - the whole thread
@@ -1162,8 +1162,6 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned lon
 			 */
 			p->it_prof_expires = jiffies_to_cputime(1);
 		}
-
-		spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -1189,6 +1187,7 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned lon
 
 	nr_threads++;
 	total_forks++;
+	spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 	proc_fork_connector(p);
 	return p;

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-06 16:45 [PATCH] fix kill_proc_info() vs copy_process() race Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-06 17:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-06 20:25   ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-14 22:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-02-15 14:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-15 19:13     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2006-02-16 19:19       ` [PATCH 1/2] fix kill_proc_info() vs CLONE_THREAD race Paul E. McKenney
2006-02-16 21:16         ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-15 19:13     ` [PATCH 2/2] fix kill_proc_info() vs fork() theoretical race Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-16 19:26       ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-02-16 20:56         ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-16 19:53           ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-02-16 21:20             ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-18  2:06               ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-02-18 18:19                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-02-20 17:49                   ` Paul E. McKenney

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